Stability analysis and synthesis of nonlinear time-delay systems via linear Takagi-Sugeno fuzzy models (Q1349194)

Consider the time-delay system \[ \dot x(t)= \sum^r_{i=1} h_i(z(t))[A_{1i} x(t)+ A_{2i}x(t- \tau_i(t))],\tag{1} \] \(h_i(z(t))\geq 0\), for \(i= 1,2,\dots, r\) and \(\sum^r_{j=1} h_j(z(t))= 1\) for all \(t\). Having used a quadratic Lyapunov function \(V(x(t))= x^T(t) Px(t)\) and the Razumikhin conditions we have Theorem 1. The equilibrium of the continuous-time fuzzy system with time delay described by (1) is asymptotically stable in the large if there exist a common matrix \(P> 0\) and \(r\) matrices \(S_i> 0\) such that \[ A^T_{1i}P+ PA_{1i}+ P+ PA_{2i} S_iA^T_{2i}P< 0,\quad P\geq S^{-1}_i,\quad\text{for }i= 1,2,\dots,r. \] Later, more complex time-delay systems are considered.